From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jean Tourrilhes Subject: Re: wireless extensions vs. 64-bit architectures Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 14:30:58 -0800 Message-ID: <20070308223058.GA24960@bougret.hpl.hp.com> References: <20070306171316.GA19669@bougret.hpl.hp.com> <200703061943.07350.mb@bu3sch.de> <20070307020310.GA20466@bougret.hpl.hp.com> <1173364747.14001.7.camel@johannes.berg> <20070308184954.GA24485@bougret.hpl.hp.com> <1173382042.3248.63.camel@johannes.berg> <20070308193412.GG23040@devicescape.com> <1173382802.3248.68.camel@johannes.berg> <20070308221128.GA24884@bougret.hpl.hp.com> <20070308141756.efdfd6da.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Reply-To: jt-sDzT885Ts8HQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Johannes Berg , Jouni Malinen , Michael Buesch , linux-wireless-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, netdev , Jeff Garzik , Dan Williams To: Randy Dunlap Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070308141756.efdfd6da.randy.dunlap-QHcLZuEGTsvQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-wireless-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 02:17:56PM -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote: > On Thu, 8 Mar 2007 14:11:28 -0800 Jean Tourrilhes wrote: > > > > Third possibility : we declare 32 bit userspace on 64 bit > > kernel as not supported and advise users to get a 64 bit > > userspace. The number of bug report on that issue would suggest that > > very few users are in this case. > > I think that this is not actually an option since > powerpc64 is all 32-bit userspace. > Maybe some other arch-es are like this also (?). Then, I assume that the powerpc64 must be using a magic version of iwconfig to configure wireless interfaces, because I only ever got one other bug report on the issue. They should have sent the patch to Johannes, because now I know about their unauthorised version of iwconfig. Thanks, Jean